'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
On Shrove Tuesday night, February 28th, 1995, I fetched up at Dublin’s R.D.S. and, as I wound my way up the long avenue, in past the security hut and around the clusters of other invitees and liggers, my mind was cast back twelve months, back to a time when we were all a... Continue Reading →
Dublin band A House played it’s last ever live show in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Friday, February 28th, 1997. I wrote about that night - it was far more than just another show, I felt - in my Sunday Tribune column the following weekend, on Sunday, March 2nd and, as was customary for me at... Continue Reading →
Ron Sexsmith 'Other Songs' [Interscope Records] **** Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian singer and writer who, for the sake of reference, follows a line laid by his fellow country-people – Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. Add to that some of the production values that once set Crowded House apart from the dogs [‘Hello... Continue Reading →
Teenage Fanclub ‘Songs From Northern Britain’ [Creation Records] ***** Teenage Fanclub should be far bigger than they actually are although, head over heart, this is as big as it’s going to get. D’ya know what I mean ? This is their fifth album and it’s certainly as good, if not better, than their last,... Continue Reading →
It was Eamonn Crudden of the Dead Elvis label – among numerous other things – who first turned me onto the Wednesday Works imprint, a small mail-order project that was run by a young dairy farmer from his front-room in Curraghmore, outside of Elphin, Co. Roscommon. At the time – the summer of 1996... Continue Reading →
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